Maokui Lyu defended at the School of Geographical Sciences, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, Fujian,  China. His dissertation, entitled “Belowground carbon processes feedback to climate change in tropical and subtropical forests: plant mediation and microbial acclimation” was conducted at Laupāhoehoe in the mean annual temperature (MAT) gradient plots. Abstract:   Tropical and subtropical forests exert a large …

FIELD TRIP!! HIPPNET and KUPU staff, as well as a few visitors. Left to right: Cuyler Bleeker, Alex Bischer, Axel Defngin, Katie Strong, Amrit Krishna, Sarah Brandenstein, Wailea Collins, Lawren Sack, Faith Inman, Lihau Collier. Photo: Maybeleen Apwong.